|Cold War, Conservatism, Getting Right with Reagan, Marcus Witcher, nuclear weapons, Ronald Reagan
Getting Reagan Right
by Paul Kengor|
|Cold War, Conservatism, Getting Right with Reagan, Marcus Witcher, nuclear weapons, Ronald Reagan
by Paul Kengor|
|Apollo 11, Cold War, Space Race
by Tony Williams|
|Cold War, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, How Public Policy Became War, New Deal, Progressivism, The Federalist, War on Drugs, Woodrow Wilson, World War I
by David Davenport|
by Carl Eric Scott|
|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones, Cold War, Henry Kissinger, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago
|Civil War, Cold War, extremism, polarization, Sectionalism, World War II
by James R. Rogers|
|Cold War, communism, Deutschland 86
|Abraham Lincoln, Civil Religion, Cold War, Foreign Policy, George Washington, Iraq War, Progressivism, The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy, Theodore Roosevelt
|Cold War, communism, Ken Burns, Vietnam War
Journalists often claim to write the first draft of history, but that statement raises the question when a story turns from current events into history. The Vietnam War now stands closer to World War II than 2017. A formative experience for the baby boom generation, those who came of age after 1990 see Vietnam as an episode in history. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns captures the immediacy of the conflict in the ten episode series The Vietnam War airing on PBS. The series also raises larger questions about American foreign policy that resonate today.
|Cold War, Dave Brubeck, December Avenue, Eastern European Communism, Public Diplomacy, Tomasz Stanko
by Mark Judge|
One of the most inspiring yet least known stories of resistance to communism during the Cold War is that of Poland’s Tomasz Stańko. Stańko, 74, is a jazz trumpeter whose beautiful, minimalistic and meditative style of playing is considered by many to be one of the great treasures of modern music. His new release, December Avenue, is a strong effort in what has been a remarkable series of albums over the last 15 years for the great German jazz label ECM. December Avenue is enjoyable on its own simply as a sublime record, but it takes on a dimension of historical…
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